Are you a budding artist looking forward to establish yourself in this fiercely populated and competitive music industry? Basically, success in the music community depends on three main factors. Good music, buying Soundcloud followers, good production and good promotion. A flaw in any one of the three factors means your survival is doubtful and eventually your boat is likely to sink.
Today, making a music album is very easy. Unlike the past when you needed Music Company and a label to promote your music to the world, today, the social media network and mediums like facebook and twitter etc, has made it possible to self promote music and art work. Increasing numbers of people are doing their own stuff and posting it online for their friends and the rest of their networks to see, and thus become popular. However, if your music is not good or appealing, it is definitely not going to be appreciated, and no one will replay it again.…

ANDALUSIA Optimism is making a comeback in rural Covington County, where hope was hard to come by just a year ago.

The reason for that optimism can be glimpsed in the telephone and computer cables hanging in bundles from unfinished ceilings in a building at the Andalusia-Opp Industrial Park. The site is the future home of a high-tech call center that one day will employ 600.…

CULLMAN — A Phenix City man charged with stabbing a Hamilton mother and her two young children testified Thursday that despite earlier confessions, he did not kill them.

Instead, Wilson Earl Robitaille said he had been a drug runner for the woman’s husband and while visiting their home was knocked unconscious. He said he later awoke in a car outside with blood on his pants and found the bodies in the house.…

Montgomery AIDS Outreach saluted its volunteers, friends and supporters at the 10th annual Appreciation Dinner hosted by its Board of Directors on May 16 in Ascension Hall at the Church of the Ascension.

Honorees included Rep. John Knight, who received the Governmental Award for his efforts in securing funds through the Legislature for continuation of the Alabama AIDS Drug Assistance Program; and Dr. Nancy Bailey, PharmD., who was named Volunteer of the Year for helping patients with their complicated medications over the past four years.…